Quiz Results: March 2005 Archives

You live a peaceful, quiet life. Very little danger comes you way and
you live a long time. You are wise and modest, but also stagnant. You
have little comfort, little food and have taken a vow of silence. But
who needs chatter when just sitting in the cloister of your abbey with
The Good Book makes you perfectly content.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You are 'regularly metric verse'. This can takemany forms, including heroic couplets, blankverse, and other iambic pentameters, forexample. It has not been used much since thenineteenth century; modern poets tend to preferrhyme without meter, or even poetry withneither rhyme nor meter.

You appreciate the beautiful things in life--thejoy of music, the color of leaves falling, therhythm of a heartbeat. You see life itself asa series of little poems. The result (or is itthe cause?) is that you are pensive and oftenmelancholy. You enjoy the company of otherpeople, but they find you unexcitable anddepressing. Your problem is that regularlymetric verse has been obsolete for a long time.